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The expression of negation
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"Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony. The appa…
This is the first volume of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates typological, general, and theoretical research documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the ling…
Aspects of English negation
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